ORDER 1. Vide order dated 12-7-20101 read with the order dated 19-7-20102, following three Committees, constituting three tiers, were set up by this Court. We reproduce Para 14 of IA No. 279 of 2010, relating to constitution of three-tier committees, for ready reference from the interlocutory application read with the order dated 19-7-20102: (i) At the district level, a District Committee headed by the Principal District Judge be constituted of the following: 1. Principal District Judge; 2. District Magistrate/Collector; 3. Executive Engineer, PWD; and 4. Chief Architect/Deputy Architect (by whatever designation called). (ii) At the State level, a State Committee headed by the Chief Secretary be constituted of the following: 1. Chief Secretary; 2. Registrar General of the High Court; 3. Principal Law Secretary (or Home Secretary as the case may be) (Member-Secretary); 4. Chief Engineer (State PWD); 5. Principal Secretary, PWD; 6. Chief Architect; 7. Principal Secretary (Finance); and 8. Principal Secretary (Planning). 1 All India Judges Assn. v. Union of India, (2010) 14 SCC 718 2 All India Judges Assn. v. Union of India, (2010) 14 SCC 716 (Union Territories Administrators will similarly constitute committees to be referred here as State Committee for convenience.) (iii) At the Central level, a Monitoring Committee headed by the Secretary, Department of Justice be constituted of the following: 1. Secretary, Department of Justice; 2. Registrar General, High Court of Delhi; 3. Additional Secretary and EA. (for Ministry of Law and Justice at Shastri Bhawan); 4. Joint Secretary, J-I, Department of Justice; 5. DDG, CPWD; 6. Director, HC & J (Member-Secretary); 7. Mr A.T.M. Sampath, Advocate (Invitee Member). 2. Till today, action-taken report on the directions given in our order dated 12-7-20101, has not been submitted by any of the States/Union Territories through the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. It is not even clear as to whether any meeting has been called for by the Chief Secretaries of the States, who are directed to head the State Committees. In the circumstances, as a matter of last opportunity, we adjourn this matter by four weeks to enable the Chief Secretaries of the respective States and the Administrators of the Union Territories, who have been directed to head the State Committees, to submit the status report on the steps taken by them pursuant to the order of this Court dated 12-7-20101 read with the order dated 19-7-20102 through the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. 3.
3. We may mention that the Registry has received registered AD cards indicating receipt of our order dated 12-7-20101, from the following States/Union Territories: Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya (Shillong Bench), Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar, Puducherry and Lakshadweep. 4. The learned Solicitor General, who is present in the Court, has assured the Court that those States which have till date not responded will do so before the next date of hearing. We direct the Registry to give a list of those States to the learned Solicitor General, who will act accordingly. In re: Setting up of SPY 5. Time has come for the judiciary to raise its own resources to meet expenses on account of judicial infrastructure, which is lacking in several States. Huge revenue generation takes place in the form of imposition of fines, costs and sale of court fees, etc., which is not earmarked for judicial infrastructure. Therefore, this Court is of the view that it needs to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) on the lines of CAMPA Funds under which such funds, as and when collected/raised, will be earmarked for judicial infrastructure. For that, an independent SPY is required to be set up again on the lines of CAMPA Funds. Accordingly, we hereby request the learned Solicitor General of India to assist us in setting up such SPY as well as in the matter of earmarking such funds for judicial infrastructure, the underlying idea being to put less pressure on the State and Central exchequers. The idea behind setting up SPY is also to have a national budget on all-India basis indicating resource-raising measures and utilisation thereof for judicial infrastructure. 6. The matter regarding SPY shall stand over by two weeks.